The bus was carrying Afghans recently returned from Iran and en route to the capital Kabul, provincial official Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi told the AFP news agency on Tuesday. The majority of those who died were on the bus, but two people travelling in the truck were also killed, as well as another two who were on the motorcycle. The surge compounds Afghanistan’s existing challenges, as the impoverished nation, back under hardline Taliban rule since 2021, struggles to integrate waves of returnees from Pakistan and Iran since 2023, amid one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises after decades of conflict.
Author: Al Jazeera
Published at: 2025-08-19 22:19:04
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